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Divorce rates by country, 2022

Latvia recorded 2.90 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2022, the highest rate among reporting countries here.

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  • 2022: 2.90 at 🇱🇻 Latvia, 1.89 at 🇦🇺 Australia (35% lower).

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Latvia recorded 2.90 divorces per 1,000 residents in 2022, followed by Lithuania at 2.60. Sweden and Turkey each recorded 2.10. This is a comparison of countries reporting to the OECD series in the same year. Countries without a value for that year do not receive an estimated rank. The comparison deliberately keeps the year consistent.

A crude divorce rate divides annual divorces by the total resident population. It does not divide divorces by marriages and cannot tell readers the probability that a newly married couple will eventually divorce. Differences in population age, marriage patterns and legal procedures can affect comparisons between countries.

The data

Source: OECD Family Database (2025) via Our World in Data. Retrieved November 5, 2026. Crude annual divorce rate per 1,000 residents, not the percentage of marriages that eventually end in divorce. Only countries reporting in the comparison year appear.

Divorce rates by country, Divorces per 1,000 residents per year, 2022, 🇱🇻 Latvia–🇦🇺 Australia
Date2022
🇱🇻 Latvia2.90
🇱🇹 Lithuania2.60
🇸🇪 Sweden2.10
🇹🇷 Turkey2.10
🇩🇰 Denmark2.08
🇫🇮 Finland2.00
🇨🇿 Czechia1.90
🇪🇪 Estonia1.90
🇱🇺 Luxembourg1.90
🇦🇺 Australia1.89

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Which country has the highest divorce rate in this comparison?

Latvia had the highest rate among reporting countries in 2022, at 2.90 divorces per 1,000 residents.

Does this show the percentage of marriages ending in divorce?

No. It counts divorces during the year per 1,000 residents, not the lifetime outcome of a group of marriages.

Where does this data come from?

OECD Family Database (2025) via Our World in Data. Retrieved November 5, 2026. Crude annual divorce rate per 1,000 residents, not the percentage of marriages that eventually end in divorce. Only countries reporting in the comparison year appear. You can download the full table as a CSV from this page.

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